Garden Maintenance

Maintaining your garden involves carrying out a few tasks on a regular cycle. We work with some of Auckland's most reputable garden maintenance services. We can put you in touch with them if needed.

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Garden Maintenance

Maintaining your garden involves carrying out a few tasks on a regular cycle, including:

  • Weeding and Mulching
  • Plant care
  • Pruning 
  • Feeding
  • Weatherproofing
  • Lawn care 
  • Planting

Weeding and Mulching

Weeding

Aside from ruining the overall aesthetic of your garden, weeds compete with your plants for both water and nutrient supply. Keeping your garden free of weeds will ensure that your plants access the water and food they need to thrive. 

Spring is the season for weeding. The warmer weather, combined with spring rain provide ideal conditions for rampant weed growth. 

Mulching

Mulching is an important next step once you have cleared your garden beds of weeds. Not only does a generous layer of mulch helps to suppress weed regrowth, but it also helps to keep the soil cool and retain moisture - moisture that your plants require for survival. Spreading mulch will also help to prevent soil erosion. 

November is a great month to mulch your garden or ensure existing mulch is still providing adequate protection. The spring weather is prime for weed growth and is when you will begin to see the demands of the warmer weather on your soil. As mentioned above, mulch supports water retention in the ground and keeps the soil cool, which helps keep your plant’s root system healthy. Equally, mulch traps in the warmth during the winter months and protects your plants as the soil temperature cools.

Types of Mulch:


  • Pine bark - we recommend Cambium bark source from sustainably harvested NZ pine 
  • Compost
  • Pea straw
  • Lawn clippings
  • Sawdust
  • Seaweed
"Keeping your garden free of weeds will ensure that your plants access the water and food they need to thrive."


SCOTT MACKAY – ON THE TOOLS DIRECTOR, FOLIUM LANDSCAPING


Garden Care

Pruning

Aside from keeping your garden looking tidy, pruning is essential to the health of your plants and trees. Pruning dead branches will ensure that the healthy part of the plant is not being deprived of light while removing diseased branches will ensure that the ailment does not spread throughout the plant. 

Pruning can also encourage desired growth, whether that be flowering, fruiting or general abundance of the plant itself.


Composting and Fertilising

Composting

Taking time to care for your compost will ensure that it functions well in your garden. May is an excellent time to get stuck into some compost maintenance. 

Autumn leaves are abundant and are a great source of carbon; vital for composting! Add vegetable scraps and grass clippings and position in a spot where it will catch all the winter sun, and you should be rewarded with an organic powerhouse to feed your garden.

 

Fertilising

Plants make their own food, but they require essential nutrients for optimum growth, just as we do. While many of these nutrients are readily available in the soil, some are not. Enter the fertiliser!

Fertilisers contain nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and calcium. All these nutrients are essential to a plant’s growth and function.

Supplementing soil with organic matter such as nutrient-rich compost is the best way to support plant health and improve soil quality in your garden. Therefore, raising its nutrient profile.

Liquid seaweed, fish emulsion, and alfalfa meal are also excellent organic options.  


When is the best time to fertilise your garden?

Plants are most active during the spring and summer months; this is when they experience the most growth, are fruiting or flowering; this is the best time to fertilise. Organic fertilisers require months to break down and penetrate the soil, so they are best applied during the autumn.

The nutrients found in synthetic fertilisers become immediately available and can therefore be applied as and when they are needed.

What to Plant and When

Summer (January and February) 

Plant fruits, vegetables and herbs, trees, shrubs, hedges

Winter and Autumn

Start planning your garden

Spring

Plant seedlings and native plants and trees

"Supplementing soil with organic matter such as nutrient-rich compost is the best way to support plant health and improve soil quality in your garden."

JARED BELLINGHAM – ON THE TOOLS DIRECTOR, FOLIUM LANDSCAPING

Lawn Care

Depending on the time of lawn you have in your garden - Ready Lawn, Woolgro, or a seeded lawn, your maintenance schedule will differ slightly.

In essence, ensuring that your lawn remains in top health requires regular watering, mowing, and fertilising.

Refer to your lawn providers maintenance guide for the best results.

Seasonal Maintenance Jobs

Summer

  • Watering and irrigation
  • Disease and pest control
  • Minimising weeds and weed prevention
  • Pruning and trimming hedges and screening plants

Autumn

  • Cleaning leaves, guttering and drains
  • Pruning varieties of ornamentals
  • Feeding and fertilising and plants
  • Planting winter varieties
  • Lawn sowing, top dressing and reseeding

Winter

  • Put your garden to bed
  • Tending to fruit tree maintenance
  • Maintaining large deciduous trees
  • Tree felling and stump removal
  • Large planting projects

Spring

  • Preparing your garden for new growth
  • Fertilising your garden
  • Checking irrigation systems 
  • Fertilising your lawn for summer
  • Preparing for weeds and pests
"Plants are most active during the spring and summer months; this is when they experience the most growth, are fruiting or flowering; this is the best time to fertilise."

JARED BELLINGHAM – ON THE TOOLS DIRECTOR, FOLIUM LANDSCAPING

Our Services

Garden Irrigation

Garden Irrigation

We have a team of irrigation specialists. Irrigation provides a hassle-free solution for watering new lawns and plants.
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Landscaping Design

Landscaping Design

We have access to some of the country's most insightful and experienced landscape designers. Feel free to talk to us about who we recommend.
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Garden Maintenance

Garden Maintenance

Maintaining your garden involves carrying out a few tasks on a regular cycle. We work with some of Auckland's most reputable garden maintenance services. We can put you in touch with them if needed.
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Drainage

Drainage

We know how to inspect for the tell-tail signs of drainage issues on a site, if found, we can quickly implement a plan to correct them.
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Garden Paving

Garden Paving

Paving is often the element that completes the textural profile of a garden. Stone, natural stone, concrete and brick paving, we understand how to work with and lay them all.
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Concrete

Concrete

Create pathways, steps and steppers. Choose the finish and colour that complements your overall aesthetic.
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Retaining Walls

Retaining Walls

We understand that every retaining wall is unique; we apply the core principles of construction and promise quality - every time!
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Garden Lawn

Garden Lawn

We understand what it takes to grow and maintain a great lawn. Getting it right from the outset is critical to achieving a healthy lawn.
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Planting

Planting

We know plants; we can advise on what to plant when to plant, and how to take care of your garden after we're gone.
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Planter Boxes

Planter Boxes

Create raised sections for planting or Vege beds with our custom-made garden boxes.
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“Landscaping in New Zealand provides a constant reminder of how important our environment is. We promote a ‘clean green’ country, and I take my role in ensuring we live up to this reputation pretty seriously.”

JARED BELLINGHAM – ON THE TOOLS DIRECTOR, FOLIUM LANDSCAPING

Local Knowledge!

Folium Landscaping is a professional North Shore Landscaping company.  Local knowledge powers our decision making and determines the advice we offer our clients. Landscaping is our passion. The North Shore is our home.

Welcome to Folium.

About Folium Landscaping

Outdoor living is an inherent part of life in New Zealand. We love our outdoor spaces. We can't live without them; our love for them inspires creative landscaping solutions. We’re a team of North Shore Landscapers who are passionate about delivering innovative gardens and working to the highest standards.
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Our skill allows us to test and troubleshoot
what is possible

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We know no other standard.

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Our place of work is your home; we value that.

“I love the creative freedom of landscaping design. My skills and experience allow me to drive the transformation of a basic residential garden into a high-end sanctuary!”

SCOTT MACKAY – ON THE TOOLS DIRECTOR, FOLIUM LANDSCAPING

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